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Prof. Yukio Tamura Awarded 2015 “IAWE Davenport Medal for Senior” by International Association for Wind Engineering

Prof. Yukio Tamura from the School of Civil Engineering, BJTU, was recently awarded the 2015 “IAWE Davenport Medal for Senior” by the International Association for Wind Engineering (IAWE) for his remarkable achievements on Wind Engineering. Prof. Yukio Tamura, who was selected into the “Thousand Foreign Talent Program” of BJTU in 2013, has made great contributions to the research, education and development of Wind Engineering. He has been committed to the theoretical research of wind resistance design of structures and wind-induced damages prevention for architectural structures, playing a leading role in the research, education and development of Wind Engineering across the globe.